Dudley Simpson
Known for: Sound
Born: October 4, 1922
Died: November 4, 2017
Place of birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dudley George Simpson (4 October 1922 – 4 November 2017) was an Australian composer and conductor. He was the Principal Conductor of the Royal Opera House orchestra for three years and worked as a composer on British television. He worked on the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he composed incidental music during the 1960s and 1970s. When Simpson died aged 95 in 2017, The Guardian wrote that he was "at his most prolific as the creator of incidental music for Doctor Who in the 1960s and 1970s, contributing to 62 stories over almost 300 episodes – more than any other composer." Among his television work was the music for Moonstrike (1963), theme music for The Last of the Mohicans (1971), theme music for The Brothers (1972), The Tomorrow People (1973), Moonbase 3 (1973), The Ascent of Man (1973) and Blake's 7 (1978). He also composed music for several plays from the BBC Television Shakespeare series.
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Filmography
89 movies · 23 TV shows, newest first
5.8
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
8.0
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
2024
5.6
Tales of the Tardis
2023
8.7
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
2021
7.5
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019
8.0
The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand
2017
NR
Warriors of Mars
2010
10.0
Oh Mummy!
2004
5.8
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
1986
NR
Blake's 7: Aftermath
1986
NR
Blake's 7: Duel
1986
NR
Blake's 7: Orac
1986
6.3
Oliver Twist
1985
9.0
Blake's 7: The Beginning
1985
7.8
Titus Andronicus
1985NR
Love Song
1985
8.5
Goodbye Mr Chips
1984
8.3
Amy
1984
8.0
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983
6.0
Dombey and Son
1983
7.7
Henry VI Part 1
19837.0
Stalky & Co
1982
9.5
The Winter's Tale
1981
7.1
Sense and Sensibility
1981
6.2
Hamlet
1980
4.7
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
1980
6.3
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
1979
6.0
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
1979
9.0
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
7.5
The Legend of King Arthur
1979
5.5
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
1979
5.5
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979
4.7
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
1979
7.2
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978
7.8
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
1978
7.0
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978
8.0
The Lost Boys
1978
7.5
The Lost Boys
1978
6.8
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978
6.2
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
1978
5.3
Doctor Who: Underworld
1978
7.3
Blake's 7
19787.0
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1978
7.0
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
1977
7.0
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
1977
7.2
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
1977
7.6
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
1977
7.0
Target
1977
2.0
Whose Doctor Who
1977
8.1
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
1977
7.9
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
1977
8.0
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
1977
8.5
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
1976
7.6
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
1976
6.6
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
1976
8.0
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
1976
7.0
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
1975
8.6
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
1975
6.8
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
1975
6.0
Madame Bovary
1975
8.9
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
1975
6.1
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
1975
7.6
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
1975
7.0
Doctor Who: Robot
1975
7.0
The Venturers
1975
6.0
Microbes and Men
1974
7.4
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
1974
5.5
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
1974
6.8
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1974
7.4
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
1974
7.3
Moonbase 3
1973
8.4
Doctor Who: The Green Death
1973
6.7
The Legend of Hell House
1973
7.0
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973
7.5
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
19738.0
A Little Princess
1973
7.8
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973
7.4
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
1973
5.9
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1972
7.5
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
1972
7.9
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
1972
7.6
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
1971
NR
The Last Witness
1971
6.6
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
1971
7.0
To Lay a Ghost
1971
6.8
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971
7.5
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1971
7.8
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
1971
5.5
The Last of the Mohicans
1971
7.2
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970
8.7
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
1970
9.7
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969
5.2
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
1969
7.8
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
1969
8.7
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
1968
8.0
The Portrait of a Lady
1968
7.3
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
1967
NR
Boy Meets Girl
1967
8.3
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
1967
8.0
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967
5.0
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1967
NR
The Fastest Draw
1966NR
The Last Invasion
1966
5.7
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
1966
8.0
The Dead Past
1965
7.1
Out of the Unknown
1965
6.5
Doctor Who: The Chase
1965
NR
Londoners
1965
6.1
Doctor Who: The Crusade
1965
7.1
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
1964
7.9
Doctor Who
19637.0
Moonstrike
1963